Next time you need to feel like a gamer but stay on task, try one of these excellent idle games to keep you company.

Like many idle games, Tiny Pasture has a pretty simple gameplay loop designed to easily slide into the background while you’re working. You take care of cute little pixel critters that sit at ...

Nicole Carpenter is a senior reporter specializing in investigative features about labor issues in the game industry, as well as the business and culture of games. Tiny Pasture is more pet care ...